• Carlos Smith (13/13) Feb 18 2007 Hi,
• Jarrett Billingsley (8/21) Feb 19 2007 Yep. There have been a few of these misplaced parens since the spec was...
• Carlos Smith (15/15) Feb 19 2007 "Jarrett Billingsley" wrote in message :
• Chris Nicholson-Sauls (5/38) Feb 19 2007 The only thing I can think of is support for C-style function pointer de...

"Carlos Smith" <carlos-smith sympatico.ca> writes:

Hi,

In the grammar for Declarations, 
  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html
there is:

Declarator:
 BasicType2 Declarator
 Identifier
 () Declarator 
 Identifier DeclaratorSuffixes
 () Declarator  DeclaratorSuffixes

the "() Declarator" parts, are they Ok ?

Should that be written "( Declarator )" instead ?

Carlos

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Carlos Smith" <carlos-smith sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
news:erbfh1$1jpv$1 digitalmars.com...
 Hi,

 In the grammar for Declarations,
  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html
 there is:

 Declarator:
 BasicType2 Declarator
 Identifier
 () Declarator
 Identifier DeclaratorSuffixes
 () Declarator  DeclaratorSuffixes

 the "() Declarator" parts, are they Ok ?

 Should that be written "( Declarator )" instead ?

 Carlos

Yep.  There have been a few of these misplaced parens since the spec was 
moved over to DDoc.

Although, what is this syntax for?

int (x) = 5;
writefln(x);

This works.  Why would you want to put parens there? 

"Carlos Smith" <carlos-smith sympatico.ca> writes:

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> wrote in message :

: Yep.  There have been a few of these misplaced parens 
since the spec was
: moved over to DDoc.
:
: Although, what is this syntax for?
:
: int (x) = 5;
: writefln(x);
:
: This works.  Why would you want to put parens there?
:

I dont know.
Will check that later, when the grammar (yes, another)
i am writing will be all done.

Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
 "Carlos Smith" <carlos-smith sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
 news:erbfh1$1jpv$1 digitalmars.com...
 Hi,

 In the grammar for Declarations,
  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html
 there is:

 Declarator:
 BasicType2 Declarator
 Identifier
 () Declarator
 Identifier DeclaratorSuffixes
 () Declarator  DeclaratorSuffixes

 the "() Declarator" parts, are they Ok ?

 Should that be written "( Declarator )" instead ?

 Carlos

 
 Yep.  There have been a few of these misplaced parens since the spec was 
 moved over to DDoc.
 
 Although, what is this syntax for?
 
 int (x) = 5;
 writefln(x);
 
 This works.  Why would you want to put parens there? 
 
 

The only thing I can think of is support for C-style function pointer
declerations, but I 
thought we wanted to move away from those...  The compiler still accepts and
comprehends 
them, though.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls